Precious Metals: There was one big topic at the @lbmaexecutive biannual dinnner last night - #Palladium. The remarkable rise of this precious metals and concerns about availability of metal dominated conversations.

Many have noted that palladium was (yesterday) more expensive than #gold, but as this chart shows, that's happened before when palladikum surged on auto demand and a lack of Russian sales in the late 1990s.

With slowing car sales in some important regions vs. an apparent shortage of metal immediately available, further volatility in palladium looks assured.